On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:09:49AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > Hi Sven, > > Sven Luther said: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > >> Sven Luther said: > >> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote: > >> >> Mmmh, i did try netboot. But kernel gets stuck to "Now booting kernel > >> >> too..." > >> > > >> > Well, but it makes debugging easier and quicker. > >> > > >> > Could you please try netbooting > >> > > >> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/2004-07-13/powerpc/netboot/2.6/vmlinuz-prep.initrd > >> > > >> > With the console=ttyS0 option or whatever, and send me the serial log > >> ? > >> > >> Hi Sven. I thought I'd give that kernel a try. I don't netboot, put > >> I wrote that kernel to my second harddisk and booted from it. In > >> summary, it boots, but it doesn't seem to include the pcnet32 driver. > >> Since every single RS6000 "offical" ethernet card that I've ever seen > >> uses pcnet32, I'd say its important to include it in the initrd. > > > > Ok, mmm, you mean the pcnet32 driver is not in the debian-installer net > > drivers ? > > > > It is in the nic-extra-modules, which is not part of the initrd, we will > > fix this, either move it to nic-modules or add the nic-extra-modules to > > the initrd. > > > > Thanks for testing. Could you try again tomorrow or later ? > > Just to let you know I tried your latest 2.6 vmlinuz-prep.initrd kernel > and this time the installer detected my ethernet card just fine. This > time it got to the partitioner without loading a SCSI driver. I might > be a bit dim but I couldn't work out how to download the additional > kernel modules for that.
Could you send us a lscpi and lspci -n output on that box ? What scsi card do you have ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
